Claudia Gold

The cruel legacy of the She-Wolf of France

Alison Weir’s study of five Plantagenet queens is dominated by Isabella, the wife of Edward II, whose vengefulness led to the Hundred Years’ War

Queen Isabella and her army, by the Master of Wavrin. From Chroniques d’Angleterre, c. 1470. [Bridgeman]

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